WEEKLY DISPATCH

Not long ago we assumed globalization, with its intensity of interactions, would breed tolerance for others. Instead, we must fight for that ideal, even if flawed, now more than ever, argues Stephen Marche.

Where most investors shy away from the cash-strapped Western Balkans, China is finding the road it needs to build closer trading ties to Europe. The strategic entry is key to seeing its Belt and Road Initiative succeed, explainsAdriano Marchese.

Will a more equitable physical world translate into a fairer online space for Indigenous communities? In this interview with John Woodside, Alexander Dirksen reflects on reconciliation efforts in Canada and where they intersect with debates around digital access, privacy and representation.

In this podcast, host Bessma Momani speaks with Project Ploughshares's Cesar Jaramillo, The Globe and Mail's Steven Chase and Google's Jaqueline Lopour about the continued fallout from the Canada-Saudi spat. This is the second episode in a new podcast series on Canadian foreign affairs. It is produced through a partnership between OpenCanada.org and The Balsillie School of International Affairs.

Deadline extended to August 31: We’re inviting junior scholars inCanadato submit a short essay explaining future defence and security challenges forCanada— what are they and how should they be tackled? Five finalistswill be invitedto join a new defence network for a few days in Waterloo before presenting their ideas at the Canadian Defence Association Institute’s Graduate Student Symposium in Kingston.Read the full details here.

BEST OF THE WEB

This month, with the last of the third aid package from the European Central Bank, the European Commission and the International Monetary Fund, Greece's economic crisis will come to a tentative end. In Spiegel Online, Giorgos Christides and Tobias Rapp report on the uphill battle still facing the Mediterranean country as it looks to begin paying off all that debt.

Not that long ago, as protests swelled during the Arab Spring, social media and digital tools were hailed as instruments of change, capable of bringing down dictators. But these technologies have also contributed to an increasingly polarized US under Donald Trump and rising authoritarianism in countries around the world, as Zeynep Tufekci reports for the MIT Technology Review.